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    Pete Michael Smith

    Pete lives and writes in the hills of western Massachusetts. He is interested in the idea of fiction as a visual art, poetry as social action and books as the weapon of the revolution. His fiction, poetry and essays have been published in a variety of journals and magazines online and in print. He blogs intermittently at honeyedmagic.com.

    Pete Michael Smith

    Short Story

    A Fix

    Pete Michael Smith·
    In private, we began with handcuffs, a shiny silver pair of handcuffs. I would take June’s small and delicate wrist in my hands and rub my thumbs across the softest, whitest skin there. June would exhale a soft moan at the touch of the steel, and then there would be the click of the mechanism engaging. Just like that, the cuff around my wrist, too, June and I would stay locked together no matter what tragedy befell us while at home...